"FOR LOVE AND LIFE" is a story of love, hope, heartache, and redemption... Its proof that faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen... Proof that dreams are made, and blossom into what we make them... The songs are honesty spilled from a broken heart, and energy fueled by pure, unfiltered emotion...

Mike Hirst is a 21-year-old artist who grew up in Glenmoore, PA... His second full-length, internationally-released, independent album, "FOR LOVE AND LIFE", was released October 2, 2007 on Play-On Records....

Mike began his songwriting career at the age of... (+) expand

"FOR LOVE AND LIFE" is a story of love, hope, heartache, and redemption... Its proof that faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen... Proof that dreams are made, and blossom into what we make them... The songs are honesty spilled from a broken heart, and energy fueled by pure, unfiltered emotion...

Mike Hirst is a 21-year-old artist who grew up in Glenmoore, PA... His second full-length, internationally-released, independent album, "FOR LOVE AND LIFE", was released October 2, 2007 on Play-On Records....

Mike began his songwriting career at the age of twelve. At that time, Mike's father, Michael J Hirst, an incredible guitarist and singer/songwriter, taught him a few basic guitar chords. Over four-hundred songs, nine albums (many unreleased), five invented alternate tunings, a few hundred shows, and nine long years later, Mike entered the summer of 2007 with even higher expectations for himself and his music. So instead of reaching into his old spiral notebooks, Mike basically locked himself in his bedroom again, and in a matter of weeks, wrote a dozen new songs.

And while "FOR LOVE AND LIFE" is the newest chapter in Mike's musically-journaled life, where the story goes from here is up to YOU! Every listener, every fan, every critic...

Being that Mike Hirst is an "independent artist", he does EVERYTHING himself. He writes the music, produces the albums, and books his own tours. If you like what you hear, tell your friends! If you can't buy the albums, download them! In fact, pirate them if you want... burn copies for your friends and upload them all over the internet. Come to the concerts and bring your video camera and post the videos all over YouTube! That's the only way Mike Hirst's music will ever be anything more than just an idea, and he really can't do it without you. (-) collapse